(NAME-MCE) BALTIMORE - This city of more than 250 neighborhoods is bursting at the seams.

[Bill Howe]

Here is further enticement to come join us in Baltimore for the NAME
Conference....

courant.com/travel/hc-travbaltimore.artsep09,0,6791883.story

Courant.com
Vibrant Baltimore
By BILL REEDPhiladelphia Inquirer

September 9, 2007

 BALTIMORE - This city of more than 250 neighborhoods is bursting at the seams.

>From its vibrant, happening Inner Harbor, it is stretching along the
waterfront east to the former cannery district of Canton and southwest
to historic Federal Hill. Shops, restaurants, and new and refurbished
homes are rejuvenating neighborhoods in between, such as trendy Harbor
East and Key Highway's ritzy Ritz-Carlton condo complex.

It's even reaching skyward: A 17-story Hilton Hotel will open next
year, with some of its 757 rooms offering a center-field view of
Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

With all of this expansion and renovation, there's much more to see
and do here than visit the National Aquarium, the Maryland Science
Center and Babe Ruth's birthplace. The neighborhoods surrounding Inner
Harbor are filled with boutiques, galleries, museums, restaurants and
clubs, all reached easily on foot, by bike or via water taxi.

My wife, Valerie, and I visited for a getaway from Philadelphia and to
celebrate our wedding anniversary. We checked into Brookshire Suites,
only three blocks from Inner Harbor.

Then it was off to the Harbor to see the sights and get a bite to eat.
We were greeted by USA Breakdancers, Bronx guys who performed
handstands, headstands and handsprings with the Harbor and a banner
reading, "Baltimore: Get in on It," as a backdrop.

Strolling past stores, clubs and restaurants - many with alfresco
dining - we made our way to Mo's Fisherman's Wharf Restaurant on the
edge of Little Italy. The dinner crowd had thinned out, and we were
quickly seated in the second-floor dining room with a picture-window
view.

A friend who lives and works here had advised that this isn't a
crabcake town. "It's really known for its hard-shell crabs," he said.
But one look at the fist-size lump crabcakes settled it, and the jumbo
one ($6 extra, totaling $27.95) served with Valerie's broiled shrimp
and scallops rivaled our favorites in Annapolis.

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